Everything points to that they are happy to let Parish run the club.

And the club pay him handsomely for what he does.

Harris and Blitzer wanting into Chelsea and Utd is another issue. They see a better financial return for their investment. It doesn't necessarily follow that the reason they are willing to sell their Palace shares is dissatisfaction with Parish.

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I think you've misread the line re deliberately - Dolphin said never!

Saudi money doesn't mean instant success... of any kind. To name a few examples of excess spending gone wrong - Chelsea, Everton Nottingham.

It also is evident that buying your way up the league outside the spending rules is not going to work anymore.

So what reasoning do you feel that soulless, Saudi or otherwise led organisations mean instant success? I mean its just a s likely somebody comes in and asset strips all the good players and tv revenue because they own various other football teams and leaves us to rot if they have control over the club and maybe balances their books elsewhere by putting it in the clubs name.

What kind of cowboy owner could do exactly that if he had control?

Hopefully the point above is clear.

Also if we were taken over and ‘asset stripped’ as you say what exactly would we do with the £29.99 we got.

Ha ha forgot the pies

I am genuinely interested to know why some fans seem to hate our owners. When you look back on say Raymond Bloye or Ron Noades as owners both used the club as a cash cow. Bloye sold as much of the surrounding land around Selhurst to the council or to Sainsbury and never put a penny into the club. Noades put his kids through university and built 3 golf clubs from the sales of Palace players then seperated the club from the ground so that Palace had to pay him rent to play there! There were all sorts of money making schemes going on behind the scenes while the manager (usually Coppell) was expected to keep pulling rabbits out of hats. Then there was Simon Jordan who overstretched himself financially and drove the club into administration because he lost control of the finances. This was after lying to the fans by telling everyone how clever he was to have tricked Ron Noades into selling Selhurst Park. Simon Jordan never came close to owning Selhurst Park.
Now I know Parish has made mistakes and it irritates me when fans think he can do no wrong because he 'saved' the club. It was he and three others and he never missed a chance to push himself in front of a tv camera to remind people in the early days but...
If Palace fans look back through history and look. I mean really take a hard look at some of the dodgy characters that have been in charge of Palace down the years I am truly interested to learn why people think Parish and the Americans are so bad.
Yes we dont spend vast sums on players but its not as if we never spend. Yes progress on the redevelopment of the ground is slow but 15 years ago we didn't have a ground and were paying sky high rents to use it. We had a muddy patch of ground in Mitchem that was loosly named our training ground. Now we have a state of the art training facility as well as a cat 1 academy. The Americans are quiet yes but then again I'd personally prefer them to stay in the background rather than the alternative which is to start meddling and mess things up. Decisions made at the club are not always the best but we are all human. We have a club to support. Its been in the top division for its ongest period. Its debts are very managable compared to most other Premiership clubs, its in decent shape financially.

I just wonder what the problem is. You rarely saw banners or demonstrations against Bloye or Noades. Two of IMO the worst owners Pace ever had.